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Sponsor |  digits | Jan 17, 7:51pm | I think being open-minded is a good topic for personal development. To remain young, vibrant, and healthy, we must be like a young bendable reed, bending with the wind and flow of life. To be unyielding and closed to new ideas, to become an old reed, brittle and unbendable, when the wind blows, we would break.
I believe it's important to find our own integrity and voice but to also be open enough to use our intuition to really seek out if a *seemingly* otherwise message could bear relevancy for us. And yes, this also the quality of humility. |
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Sponsor | | digits | Jan 20, 2:46pm | | Hey thanks! LoL Cool. ;) |
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|  PassionatePuppy | Jan 20, 3:52pm | | How about a definition of open-mindednes?? I thinks it may be open to interpretation and perhaps even personal perception?? |
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Sponsor | | Thomas-Jefferson | Jan 20, 3:59pm | | open-mindedness means analyzing or discussing the alternatives rather than ignoring or attacking them. |
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| | PassionatePuppy | Jan 20, 4:10pm | 1-I love your 2nd paragraph....I dont believe that young, youth youngness etc. are synonymous with open-mindedness tho.
5- sounds good
I often defend my beliefs and ideas with a venegence. But there is something inside of me which always puts me in a position of listening and then on to reflection whenever I get into a heated discussion around my beliefs and ideas. I often modify them if the info I have received from the other one makes good sense to me. Or at very least my reflections bring me to understand the other person a little more (and perhaps understand myself a little more as well).
Its hard to be open minded tho when someone is yelling at you and/or calling you names!!! |
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Sponsor | | digits | Jan 20, 5:07pm | as a young person being a blank slate - having no ideas to hold attachments to, they're pretty open-minded to instruction, ideas, new and creative ways to solve problems. and generally speaking, the older a person gets - unless a self-searching or move to enlightenment - the more attached to their ideas; ie, less malleability.
youth isn't necessarily a guarantee of open-mindedness but it is a guarantee of a blank mind in which to learn; no attachments yet. as people become older they find comfort in their attachments; it reminds them of who they are. of course, this guarantees suffering. [its a noble truth right?]
therefore, the idea to keep this quality into adulthood sounds reasonable but somewhere along the way the ego takes over and introduces fear; fear of being wrong, of change, to move, to grow. brittle. |
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